The theory of relativity and its influence on scientific thought

by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

THE ROMANES LECTURE

1922

THE
THEORY OF RELATIVITY

and its
Influence on Scientific Thought

BY

ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON

M.A., F.R.S.

Plumian Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge
President of the Royal Astronomical Society

DELIVERED
IN THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE
24 MAY, 1922

OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1922

Has not a deeper meditation taught certain of every climate and age, that the where and the when so mysteriously inseparable from all our thoughts, are but superficial terrestrial adhesions to thought?

CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus.

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